Spain

AUDIENCES

The participants are a group of citizens of Navas neighbourhood, San Andreu district, and others on the outskirts of Barcelona. Starting in spring 2015, about 40 people are involved in the creative process.

Participants citizens are people interested in the project transFORMAS without any previous theatrical training requirement. These are people of all ages, neighbourhood equipment users or members of associations of the district, and also other persons who are associated with any group or that are not related to this geographical area of Barcelona.

Specifically, people who participated in the project desPLAÇA’t are users of the cultural center for the elderly, the Equipment Meridiana for people living in the street, AREP (Association for the rehabilitation of persons with mental illness) and AFAP (Families Association for helping people with poliomyelitis) and FORA’m group (Barcelona residents and periphery).

Initially, the groups differ mainly in social, physical or mental stigma that participants live in their daily lives. Secondly, the process is common, and they all join to create the show.

During the process, we pass from a group of “person with …” another group of “person without …”, another group of “person as …” to one only group of actresses and actors share a space and a common goal.

This is the first move. The work is not based on the signs of difference but on those that unite: creation, drama, and dialogues.

TERRITORIES

desPLAÇA’t takes place in two periods of implementation. During the first period we are working in the usual areas of the participants. Then we group ourselves in a cultural area of the city.

Principal jurisdiction is the city of Barcelona and more specifically Navas neighbourhood in the district of Sant Andreu.

The actions will first take place in different local partners:

Navas Social Center for users of equipment Integral Méridiana

AFAP

AREP

Cultural Center Navas (elderly)

Social Centre Harmonía

Then the project is in residence at the Fabra i Coats creation factory of the city of Barcelona.

The project mixes the intervention sites creating a network around the creation in the area.